Windows SNMP and 64 Bit Interface Counters

dankingdon · Post by **dankingdon** » Tue Mar 24, 2009 5:27 am

So is this possible?

I have found info describing that the specific OID's for 64 Bit octects are just not natively supported in Windows. Does anyone know of a way of implementing it without switching to a third party snmp service on the machine?

Thanks for the help.

d0nni3q · Post by **d0nni3q** » Tue Mar 24, 2009 11:24 am

To the best of my knowledge and recent research on the same issue, Microsoft does not natively support the ifHCxyz SNMP counters. There might be success in implementing net-snmp for Windows on the system in question. You'd want to have net-snmp respond the the ifHCxyz OIDs and setup a proxy to the native Microsoft SNMP agent to handle the rest.

Don Q.

kokkers · Post by **kokkers** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 4:31 pm

I gave up on monitoring Windows network interfaces using SNMP.
I never bothered getting it working properly.

In our setup it has proven far more reliable to monitor the interfaces on the switch and router interface side.

dankingdon · Post by **dankingdon** » Fri Mar 27, 2009 5:21 am

Yeah thats what im doing at present. JUst graphing traffic from the switch not the server. Was mainly for convenience so that under a host you see its traffic graphs, at present they are all listed under the switch.

Never mind. Worth a thought at least.

Post by **TheWitness** » Fri Mar 27, 2009 6:53 am

I don't know why Microsl** does not fix this. It's been broken as long as I have been using Windows NT 4.x. That's a while. Net-snmp's agent will fix that, but it just doesn't feel right.

TheWitness

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